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Military-Industrial Complex Opens Modern “Ghost Town” in NM

By on Oct 9, 2011

A few weeks ago, the Santa Fe New Mexican ran an interesting little story about a Washington DC-based “technology” company’s plans to build an uninhabited town called The Center. This instant ghost town will be located on state-owned land in the Albuquerque-Santa Fe corridor, or perhaps further south near Las Cruces and the borders with Mexico and El Paso. The Center will allow scientists to test “everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and smart-grid cybersecurity systems”

Really?  We just have a few questions. A whole town, complete with houses, streetlights and, we’d assume, faux municipal buildings—but no people—for $200 million? Just to learn things like how well a solar panel interfaces with a thermostat? We notice the buried mention of “federal labs and military installations to test their innovations,” supposedly of green technology. Color us skeptic.

New Mexico is no stranger to federal labs and military installations, of course; it’s the home of Sandia National Laboratory and that other secret city, Los Alamos—home of the nuclear bomb at Los Alamos National Laboratory—not to mention three Air Force bases and the White Sands Missile Range. Pegasus Global Holdings, the company offering this exciting opportunity to cash-strapped New Mexico, has two very different websites, offering considerable confusion about the nature of their business. Surely a hefty tax break was included in this “first of its kind” project. With an 18-month negotiation process leading up to the announcement—and a new governor only in office since January—this was apparently a gift to the state by former Governor Bill Richardson, although Republican Gov. Susana Martinez is in full support mode.

We’re not the only people asking these questions: some New Mexicans have questioned the Santa Fe paper about this article in letters to the editor, but so far there has been no local reporting at all following what was essentially a published—and suitably glowing— press release. Area 51, anybody?

 

 

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  • Matt Prather

    The point of this town is so that the same people in the CIA, the NIA, the Special Operations Command — all the usual cryto-fascists — the same people who are trying to roboticize and remote-control the war machine through drones, robots, and “cognitive science” research can now make a town for them to practice making what they will need for their enslaved home peasant population — 1984-style control of everything.

    This is an attempt to start to put the new feudal world order they have always wanted into practice. The rest of the world is collapsing quickly, so the time is now or never for them to put their money and their infrastructure where their mouth is.

    This is a prototype community for neo-feudal national security state control of the peasant population at home. The American people have already outsourced their survival to a corporate world order predicated upon neo-feudalism. Now they have to take it to the next level: your job, your electricity, your money more directly controlled by the lords of war in the DoD and all the other un-Constitutional National Security State apparatus.

  • Matt Prather

    The point of this town is so that the same people in the CIA, the NIA, the Special Operations Command — all the usual cryto-fascists — the same people who are trying to roboticize and remote-control the war machine through drones, robots, and “cognitive science” research can now make a town for them to practice making what they will need for their enslaved home peasant population — 1984-style control of everything.

    This is an attempt to start to put the new feudal world order they have always wanted into practice. The rest of the world is collapsing quickly, so the time is now or never for them to put their money and their infrastructure where their mouth is.

    This is a prototype community for neo-feudal national security state control of the peasant population at home. The American people have already outsourced their survival to a corporate world order predicated upon neo-feudalism. Now they have to take it to the next level: your job, your electricity, your money more directly controlled by the lords of war in the DoD and all the other un-Constitutional National Security State apparatus.

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  • Adam

    Some Wag the Dog scenarios could play out there

  • Anonymous

    Why can’t they use this town they’re building to house homeless people? Will there be an “Occupy The Center” movement organizing? Or should we just call it by it’s proper name, “The Village”?  Be Seeing You!

  • http://www.nu4ya.com K.I.A.

    google Ghost Cities of China. preparations for earth changes?

  • Mivince79

    We notice the buried mention of “federal labs and military installations to test their innovations,” supposedly of green technology. Color us skeptic

    Indeed! Does anyone remember the book, Plutonium Files? It describes all the hideous nuclear experiments the US government did on its own people during the Cold War. Why should we think anything has changed since those revelations in the 199os? Beware.

  • pokerjoe

    I see uncle Bills pockets getting full.

  • Scorn D

    Or something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_Aerial_Reconnaissance_Team

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